My system is uptodate with the current testing repo. During bootup today I noticed the error message: /etc/rc.sysinit: line 364: /dev/tty[0-9]*: no such file or directory To my surprise, only /dev/tty was present, but none of tty0..9. Instead there was a device literally named '/dev/tty[0-9]*' !! I deleted the latter, and attempted to create the missing ones with mknod. But I think I took the wrong major number, and now my system has started to behave a bit crazy... Any idea what I should do to restore it to sanity?
rm -f /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules
... and back! That was it indeed. Ah, well, how long did I live with that antediluvian udev.rules file? It was dated March 2008 and did not even belong to the udev package... Wonder what ill it caused otherwise. Well. Gone now. Thanks again.
That file is a real mistery, I didn't have it (I have probably removed it long time ago) but a friend had it timestamped at 2007 -- damjan